Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar has been left out of the Abbasi’s cabinet.

PML-N leaders Talal Chaudhry and Daniyal Aziz are expected to be appointed ministers of state, the sources said.

The latest development comes hours after the PML-N’s top brass held two back-to-back consultative meetings at Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s Donga Gali residence.

The party has been deliberating over membership of the new cabinet over the past few days, as well as its contender for the upcoming NA-120 by-poll for the seat left vacant by ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.